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Pentagon: Taliban a resilient force in Afghanistan
2008-06-27 16:05:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban has regrouped after its initial fall from power in Afghanistan and the pace of its attacks is likely to increase this year, according to a Pentagon report that offers a dim view of progress in the nearly seven-year-old war. Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U.S. ...
By: TexasFred's
Pentagon lawyers sought harsh interrogation
2008-06-17 16:58:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks pursued abusive interrogation techniques once favored by such U.S. enemies as North Korea and Vietnam, despite stern warnings by several military lawyers that the methods were cruel and even illegal, according to a Senate investigation. The findings, detailed in a hearing Tuesday, ...
By: TexasFred's
We Have Lost a Friend and a Military Dog Brat
2008-06-09 22:44:00 We named her after the President of Iceland in the early 90s and had to spell it wherever we went! Vigdis joined the family in Annandale, VA after our return from Iceland in 1992 when I was assigned to the Pentagon. She never left our side for 16 years. She played with us, our neighbors' dogs, our friends and eventually our grandsons too! Always friendly but also a defender in time of need. Her picture doesn't reflect the German Shepherd in her but her heart did! An intruder found out the hard way one evening! She hated air travel but loved the freedom of a large yard at McChord AFB and one evening at Charleston AFB she decided to go on her "own" walk on the trail around the base! Friends saw her on the trail and called us and we think she did the loop like we did as a family! She came home tail wagging and seemingly telling us she didn't need us all the time! Described in her older age as "Gentle Vigdis" she could take a treat from a one year old without touching their...
Pentagon 'urged notes destroyed'
2008-06-09 10:53:00 Canadian Omar Khadr was 15 when he was capturedGuantanamo Bay interrogators were told to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify on detainee treatment, a military lawyer alleges.
By: Get rich
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?
2008-06-06 19:15:00 In a word, yes, several times. First Chalabi, the Iranian spy, working paradoxically with Israeli spies in AIPAC, manipulated the already inclined neocons in the Bush Administration, to lead the Iraqi invasion. McClatchy Washington Bureau Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have "been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service ... to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government," a Senate Intelligence Committee report said Thursday. A top aide to then-secretary of defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, shut down the 2003 investigation into the Pentagon officials' activities after only a month, and the Defense Department's top brass never followed up on the investigators' recommendation for a more thorough investigation, the Senate report said.
Congress Acts To Curb Pentagon Propaganda
2008-06-04 14:38:00 The recent revelaltions by former Bush press secretary, Scott McClellan, about efforts to sell the Iraq invasion by Republicans, has once again raised questions concerning the role of the military in how it presents itself to the American public. Is it conveying information or is it part of a propaganda machine trying to sell administration ...
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How the Pentagon shapes the world
2008-06-01 09:49:00 Sudhan @09:50 CET By Frida Berrigan | Asia Times, May 31, 2008 A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the George W Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets and t-shirts for sale as well as counters and graphics to download onto blogs and websites. But when the countdown ends ...
By: Suzie-Q
How the Pentagon shapes the world - Asia Times Online
2008-05-30 11:37:00 How the Pentagon shapes the worldAsia Times Online, Hong Kong - 8 hours agoCertainly, he wills to his successor a world marred by war and battered by deprivation, but perhaps his most enduring legacy is now deeply embedded in ...
How the Pentagon shapes the world - Asia Times Online
2008-05-30 11:37:00 How the Pentagon shapes the worldAsia Times Online, Hong Kong - 8 hours agoCertainly, he wills to his successor a world marred by war and battered by deprivation, but perhaps his most enduring legacy is now deeply embedded in ...
The "Pentagon"
2008-05-29 17:07:00 My Nephews first day of work at the Pentagon was yesterday. I guess this is the view as he pulled into the massive parking area. If this is his parking spot, well, I 'll know he must be sweeping floors or something, be cause I am not quite sure what he is doing their. Hopefully killing terrorists or some such fun, but it seems I will have to pry more to get the information I need. Since he is younger I maybe able to torture him? I hear water boarding is quick. I'll go right to that, why mess around with finger-nail pulling and beatings? Just pour ice cold water over the little brat! HAHA!! He's a good kid and I am sure he will plan the killing of many of Americas enemy's! OOH-RAHHHHH!!!Powered by b2evolution.
By: My Point
The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop
2008-05-29 00:07:00 After all, seven years, four months, and a scattering of days into the Bush presidency, the Pentagon is deeply entrenched in Washington and still aggressively expanding. It has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasure of this country. It is an institution that has escaped the checks and balances of the nation. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Britain?s phoney war on terror
2008-05-25 20:06:00 We are too concerned with multiculturalism and political correctness to combat the threat of Islamism effectively. After spending time recently with senior Pentagon officials and other Americans involved in counter-terror-ism, I was struck by the global scope of their concerns. Above all I was reminded how different their attitudes are from those of their British counterparts, ...
By: 1913 Intel
Pentagon says growth of Al-Qaeda safe havens 'troubling'
2008-05-25 14:42:00 CNews WASHINGTON: A Pentagon report said Friday that the growth of Al-Qaeda safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas is "troubling" and warned it may take Pakistan several years to turn around the situation.The report to Congress by the US Department of Defense said Pakistan increased its troop levels in the border areas by 30,000 last year, and made "significant and costly" efforts to eliminate safe havens."It is troubling that despite these efforts, safe havens in the FATA have grown in recent years," the report said. The Pentagon report noted that 700 Pakistanis have been killed in suicide attacks since July 2007.It said "Al-Qaeda and other violent extremists continue to hide out in the FATA, where they are able to recruit, train, and target US and western interests, including plots against Europe and the US homeland."Madrassas, or Islamic religious schools, "continue to promote jihad and martyrdom, and provide potential operatives for acts of violence in Afghanistan," it said."De...
Addressing Asymmetric Threats: Shifts at the Pentagon And Strategic Communi
2008-05-15 18:42:00 Last Thursday, I was honored to chair one of four panels at a special seminar, "Dealing with Today's Asymmetric Threat," co-sponsored by the National Defense University and CACI International , with assistance from the Counterterrorism Foundation. The purpose of the seminar was to establish a framework for the development of an integrated and synchronized strategy, by the end of the calendar year, to address the asymmetrical threats to United States and global security. My panel, titled, "Global...(read more)
Dissuading China
2008-05-15 14:53:00 What about stop trading with China? Wait, that would be inconvenient. Plus it would lower my standard of living. Wouldn’t war and death lower your standard of living even more? From the article: The US would like to prevent China from developing certain offensive military capabilities. A dissuasion strategy has its charms, but it lacks a political ...
By: 1913 Intel
White House knew of the Pentagon domestic propaganda program
2008-05-15 03:23:00 Pentagon documents released by the Defense Department and posted at its website show that White House officials, including Karl Rove, were aware of the domestic propaganda program under which the DoD coached retired military “analysts” to parrot administration views in television and radio appearances on all the major networks. The Smith-Mundt Act prohibits the federal ...
Pentagon Document Dump: E-mailer Requested ’Softball’ Interview With Ge
2008-05-13 05:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:30 PM MST Pentagon document dump: E-mailer suggested ’softball’ interview with top general.» Last month, the Pentagon released an extensive document dump with details on its military analyst propaganda program. TPM Muckraker notes that in a 2006 e-mail, someone (with a redacted name) e-mailed Pentagon officials stating that Jed Babbin, a participant in the analyst program, would be guest hosting for right-wing radio talker Michael Medved. Babbin requested an interview with Gen. George Casey, then top commander in Iraq. Pitching the request to interview Casey to the Pentagon officials, the e-mailer said: “this would be a softball interview and the show is 8th or 9th in the nation.” Allison Barber, a Public Affairs official at the Pentagon, responded: Thanks for sending this. Just fyi, probably wouldn’t put “softball” interview in writing. If that got out it would compromise jed and general casey. The e-mailer wrote back: “check, check.”
By: Suzie-Q
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2008-05-11 08:00:00 LINKTerms from the CU website: Balance transfers will have an Annual Percentage Rate of 2.99%; monthly periodic rate of 0.249%. Rate shall remain in effect on the transferred balance(s) until it is paid in fullif you are in default at any time the 2.99% APR will revert to your regular APR. Payments will be applied to the account balance in the order determined by Pentagon Federal Credit Union in its sole discretion. The regular APR applicable for purchases or cash advances (revolving balances) and the APR for prior promotional balances remains unchanged. Balance transfers are treated as cash advances, therefore finance charges accrue from the date the transfer is posted to your account. Balance transfers of other Pentagon Federal Credit Union loans are not eligible for this promotion. This promotion is subject to change or termination at any time and without prior notice.
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The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets
2008-05-07 20:06:00 America is a country at war with itself. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Death's Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Pentagon Poison into Na
2008-05-06 11:26:00 by Chris Floyd Judith Miller might have been the poster child for the corporate media's collaboration with the Bush Administration's war of aggression against Iraq but her New York Times colleague and co-writer, Michael Gordon, was every bit as culpable and complicit, happily playing stovepipe to the bloodthirsty bullshit gurgling up from the White House and Pentagon cesspits. Miller is gone from the mainstream heights, but Gordon soldiers on at the Times literally. Although he is probably not paid directly by the Bush Regime to peddle their propaganda, he serves precisely the same function as the military brass that the Administration embedded as "independent analysts" on the network news shows a nefarious practice most recently exposed in great detail by...the New York Times. But the Times, like most of our great institutions, piously follows the scriptural injunction, and lets not the right hand know what its left hand is doing. And so...
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By: iBankDesign
MPRI Is Another Pentagon Contractor Avoiding Millions In Taxes With Off-Sho
2008-05-05 02:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 5:30 PM MST Another Iraq Contractor Avoiding Millions In Taxes Through Off-Shore Havens Last March, the Boston Globe reported that KBR ? one of the top profiteers of the Iraq war ? has avoided paying more than $500 million ?in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring its workers through shell companies? based ...
By: Suzie-Q
China: Let The War Games Begin
2008-05-03 03:59:00 According to the 2007 edition of the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, China is developing a capability beyond regional war at a pace that both surprises and concerns U.S. officials, a capability that includes a new generation of ballistic missile submarines and the capability of a first-strike attack on our military satellites. Appropriately, the ...
By: 1913 Intel
Army Barracks Housing Video Stirs Pentagon To Investigage All Housing
2008-05-01 12:52:00 Congratulations to all who got behind the effort to alert Congress and the Army about the deplorable conditions at Fort Bragg. The Army launched a worldwide investigation into all barracks in the system to discover the level of housing issues our soldiers face. Great job and this should make the homecomings easier for America’s heroes. Brig. ...
9/11 Pentagon Memorial Takes Shape
2008-04-30 21:38:00 Washington Post The metal for Zoe and Dana Falkenberg was just under 3,000 degrees, glowing in heavy, black cauldrons that hung from the ceiling on cables and huge iron hooks. Workers at MetalTek International, a foundry 30 miles south of St. Louis, had finished the memorials for all the other victims, and they had saved those ...
By: Pirate's Cove
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. is Broke
2008-04-27 02:40:00 60 years of enormous military spending is taking a dramatic toll on the rest of the economy. The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room." read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PBS breaks ‘media blackout’ of story on Pentagon propaganda
2008-04-27 02:25:00 "...The New York Times published an explosive report exposing the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts... TV news organizations have largely been silent on their role in the propaganda. Ari Melber notes that last night, PBS’s Newshour finally broke this blackout, but couldn’t convince the other networks to participate..." read more digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
GASP! The Pentagon “used” the media! [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 20:23:00 Having just finished George Creel’s 1920 book, How We Advertised America: The First Telling Of The Amazing Story Of The Committee On Public Information That Carried The Gospel Of Americanism To Every Corner Of The Globe, the idea that the Pentagon would
Pentagon?s Media Manipulation on War Extended to Newspapers
2008-04-21 09:48:00 By Greg Mitchell Published: April 20, 2008 1:25 PM ET Source: Editor and Publisher NEW YORK The New York Times today published a massive piece by David Barstow on how the Pentagon for years has secretly deployed a large crew of retired military officers to flood the airwaves ? network and cable ? to offer ...
Behind Analysts, the Pentagon?s Hidden Hand
2008-04-21 04:49:00 Behind Analysts, the Pentagon?s Hidden Hand: One more reason to watchThe News Houron PBS instead.So what is this now? The military-industrial-media complex? Or is everything okay since this has been stage-managed by our duly elected president?s appointed cronies?
NYTimes Exclusive: Generals Know People at Pentagon
2008-04-20 07:27:00 Blockbuster: To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as military analysts whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the
By: mini wisdom
Pentagon institute calls Iraq war ?a major debacle? with outcome ?in doubt?
2008-04-19 03:18:00 WASHINGTON ? The war in Iraq has become “a major debacle” and the outcome “is in doubt” despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon’s premier military educational institute. The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush’s ...
By: TexasFred's
[Interesting] Iraqi govt fires 1300 policemen who refuse role in Pentagon?s
2008-04-14 16:43:00 LA Times
The Pentagon
2008-04-06 09:17:00 I came across this video while doing some research. It's pretty interesting. It's about the plane that crashed at the Pentagon on 9th September. It's a short video that won't take more than five minutes of your time...Here's the link...The Pentagon StrikeThings that make you go HMMMMMMMMM....
By: A Tattooed Blog
Chinese Spy ?Slept? In U.S. For 2 Decades
2008-04-03 20:25:00 From The Washington Post: Prosecutors called Chi Mak the “perfect sleeper agent,” though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security ...
By: The Hot Joints
Pentagon Declassifies Five-Year-Old Interrogation Memo
2008-04-02 16:55:00 In the explosive documentary film series Bush's War, which aired on PBS last week, a September 14th, 2001 memo by former deputy assistant attorney general for the OLC, John Yoo, was discussed. Portions from an interview with Yoo were aired in which he described crafting a memo that detailed nearly unlimited decision-making rights for the President George W. Bush under the Constitution during wartime. Yesterday, the Pentagon made a very similar March 14, 2003 Justice Department memo - also authored by John Yoo - public for the first time. Though the memo is now defunct, it took nine months to be rescinded, and five years to be officially public knowledge.
Bloggers On The Pentagon?s Payroll?
2008-04-02 16:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST The military plan to ?clandestinely? put bloggers on the payroll Posted April 1st, 2008 at 9:15 am For quite a while, the debate over blogs in the Defense Department was over whether U.S. troops should be allowed to have them at all. On the one hand, some officials were concerned ...
By: Suzie-Q
Pentagon Is Expected to Close Intelligence Unit
2008-04-02 05:31:00 The Pentagon is expected to shut a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Pentagon Official Pleads Guilty To Giving Secrets To China
2008-04-01 17:59:00 A Pentagon official pleaded guilty Monday to passing US military secrets to an agent working for China after being showered with gifts and gambling money, the Department of Justice said. Gregg William Bergersen, 51, faces up to 10 years in jail after admitting to one count of conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not ...
By: The Hot Joints
Pentagon To Colleges–Give Us The Student Names!
2008-04-01 09:08:00 The Defense Department has announced a new get tough policy with colleges that refuse to turn over the names of students since that information is of vital importance to milltary recruiters. The Pentagon wants the exact same access tos tudent directories that is provided all other prospective employers. Students can opt out of having this information given to military recruiters only if they at the same time opt out of the data being provided any prospective employer. The new policy refuses to accept a school’s claim that recruiters are banned from the college grounds because school authorities have determined no students wish to enter the armed forces. Federal funding can be cut off to colleges that refuse access to millitary recruiters or deny ROTC programs on campus. The Supreme Court last year upheld the right of government to deny funding if a college denies recruiters access to the school. The reality of modern times is few college students are interested in military ca...
Possible Pentagon Problems!
2008-03-31 20:48:00 Hello FastServers.net Community, We have just received notice that our billing software provider will be performing maintenance and updates on one of their servers tomorrow morning. This will not affect the servers/services you lease through FastServers, however it could potentially affect you ability to log into or perform tasks in your Pentagon account while the maintenance is being performed. The maintenance is scheduled for tomorrow - Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 - from 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC) to 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC). Efforts will be made to minimize downtime during this maintenance window. If you have an emergency based support request and are unable to log into your Pentagon account to submit a support ticket during the scheduled maintenance time please call our support team at 1-866-753-3278. If you have non-emergency questions/issues during the scheduled maintenance time and cannot log into your Pentagon account please try logging in again after 9:00 AM EDT. Thank yo...
Pentagon orders nuclear inventory
2008-03-28 02:39:00 Mr Gates said the report should be submitted within two months US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full inventory of US nuclear arms after parts of ballistic missiles were mistakenly sent to Taiwan.
By: Get rich
Pentagon tells Bush of troop strains
2008-03-27 12:03:00 Not like he’ll listen, but they tried again anyway: Behind the Pentagon’s closed doors, U.S. military leaders told President Bush Wednesday they are worried about the Iraq war’s mounting strain on troops and their families. But they indicated they’d go along with a brief halt in pulling out troops this summer. The Joint Chiefs of Staff did say senior commanders in Iraq should make more frequent assessments of security conditions, an idea that appeared aimed at increasing pressure for more rapid troop reductions. The chiefs’ concern is that U.S. forces are being worn thin, compromising the Pentagon’s ability to handle crises elsewhere in the world. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pentagon tells Bush of troop strains", url: "http://www.tooprogressive.com/-2008/03/27/pentagon-tells-bush--of-troop-strains/" });
By: Too Progressive
Pentagon finds no link between al Qaeda & Saddam Hussein...then tries to hi
2008-03-27 00:00:00 This story came out last week and is truly a pathetic attempt at censorship by our government: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online. The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online. One Pentagon spokesman's excuse for not putting it up on the website, as originally planned, was that initial press reports made it too "politically sensitive." Well, no duh! And yet the report, who's executive summary can be...
Homeland Security At It?s Best? Pentagon Mistakenly Shipped Missile Parts T
2008-03-26 16:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST Pentagon says it mistakenly shipped ballistic missile parts to Taiwan RAW STORY Published: Tuesday March 25, 2008 The Pentagon has announced that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming. It said the items have been returned to the United States. At a Pentagon ...
By: Suzie-Q
Pentagon mea culpa and nukes across America
2008-03-25 20:54:00 The Pentagon's cone head is showing! as Defense Secretary Robert Gates admits to "The Mistake of the Taiwanese Cone Heads" or something like that. Is he planning to write a mystery novel or get to the bottom of their supposed incompetence? Actually Gates has called for an investigation (and we know where those tend to lead--down the garden path) into four containers of fuses shipped to Taiwan |
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